Winter Crafts

When I taught art, I noticed that when my students cut "snowflakes" they often ended up with confetti or something that looked like a doily. I taught them the simple way to cut paper snowflakes that look "real" and a pretty way to display their masterpieces.

Materials
1. squares of thin white paper(the younger the child, the thinner and larger the paper)
2. scissors
3. squares of dark construction paper (the same size as the white paper)
4. glue
5. white glitter (optional)

1. Fold the paper in sixths and cut off the ends (see diagram)

2. Cut lots of triangles into the two folded sides of the paper. Be sure not to cut all the way through.

3. Unfold the snowflake.

4. Glue to snowflake to the square of construction paper.

5. (Optional) brush glue over the snow flake and sprinkle on glitter.

How to fold a "snowflake"

Materials

1. Empty toilet paper tube
2. Black construction paper
3. White paper
4. Orange constrution paper
5. Glue stick
6. Scisors
7. Binder-paper Reinforcement
stickers (click for example)
or Googily eyes

Steps

1. Cut black paper into a 6 x 4 1/2 strip
2. Glue strip of black paper around the toilet paper tube
3. Cut tummy out of white paper, wings out of black,
and feet and beak out of orange, according to template
4. Glue tummy to lower front of TP tube
5. Fold beak in half (as indicated in template)
and glue bottom half above penguin tummy
6. Fold feet tabs(as indicated in template) and glue tabs
to the inside of the TP tube so the feet stick out in front
7. Glue wings to sides of penguin
(you can glue the entire wing flat or just the tops so the wings can "flap")
8. Apply 2 reinforcement stickers or glue on Googily eyes

click for printable template

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by Natalie Lintner © 1999-2002
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